The 19th International Conference on Unconventional Computation and
Natural Computation (UCNC 2021)
October 18-22, 2021
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Website: https://ucnc2021.cs.aalto.fi <https://ucnc2021.cs.aalto.fi>
Contact: ucnc2021@aalto.fi <mailto:ucnc2021@aalto.fi>
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The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural
Computation (UCNC) is a meeting where scientists from many different
backgrounds are united in their interest in novel forms of computation,
human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects
of natural processes. The 19th International Conference on
Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2021) will be
held at Aalto University, Espoo (greater Helsinki area), Finland, on
October 18-22, 2021.
The conference will be a primarily on-site event, with opportunities for
real-life personal contacts, discussions and networking. We are closely
monitoring the status of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the meeting will be
organised according to the health and safety guidelines prescribed by
the Finnish authorities and Aalto University. More information is
available on the conference website
<https://ucnc2021.cs.aalto.fi/practical_information.shtml>.
Registration
Registration informationhttps://ucnc2021.cs.aalto.fi/registration.shtml
<https://ucnc2021.cs.aalto.fi/registration.shtml>
Early registration deadlineSeptember 26, 2021
Posters (2nd Call)
For poster submissions, authors are invited to submit a maximum of 2
pages abstract of their work by email with a tag "[Poster submission]"
in the header to ucnc2021@aalto.fi <mailto:ucnc2021@aalto.fi>
Poster submission deadlineSeptember 19, 2021
Poster notificationSeptember 21, 2021
Topics include, but are not limited to:
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Programmable matter
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Material computing
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Molecular computing
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Membrane computing
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Quantum computing
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Self-assembling and self-organising systems
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Super-Turing computation
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Swarm computing
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Optical computing
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Collision-based computing
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Cellular automata
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Neural computation
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Evolutionary computation
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Artificial life
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Artificial immune systems
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Amorphous computing
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Chaos computing
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Physarum computing
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Computational systems biology
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Computational neuroscience
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Cellular (in-vivo) computing
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Synthetic biology
Invited speakers
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Corentin Coulais <https://coulaislab.com/>(University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands)
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Cody Geary
<https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/cody-geary(98d316cf-149c-4918-b58b-34ead7bd2e20).html>(Aarhus
University, Denmark)
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Mikko Möttönen
<https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-applied-physics/quantum-computing-and-devices-qcd>(Aalto
University, Finland)
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Andrew Phillips
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/aphillip/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2F%7Eaphillip>(Microsoft
Research Cambridge, UK)
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Damien Querlioz
<https://sites.google.com/site/damienquerlioz/>(CNRS, Université
Paris-Saclay, France)
Workshops
The following independent workshops are co-located with the UCNC 2021
conference:
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Programmable Matter
<http://www.self-assembly.net/UCNC2021-prog-matter/>, organised by
Christian Scheideler
<https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/person/20792/>(Paderborn
University, Germany) and Matthew Patitz
<http://self-assembly.net/mpatitz>(University of Arkansas, USA)
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Third International Workshop on Theoretical and Experimental
Material Computing (TEMC 2021)
<https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/temc/TEMC2021-UCNC21/index.html>,
organised by Susan Stepney
<https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/>(University of York, UK)
For participation in the workshops, please contact directly the
respective organisers.
Programme Committee
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Selim G. Akl (Queen's University, Canada)
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Pablo Arrighi (Université Paris-Saclay, France)
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Peter Banda (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
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Daniela Besozzi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
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Julien Bourgeois (Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France)
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Olivier Bournez (École Polytechnique, France)
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Cristian Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
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Matteo Cavaliere (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
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Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans, France)
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Ángel Goñi-Moreno (Technical University of Madrid, Spain)
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Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Mika Hirvensalo (University of Turku, Finland)
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Nataša Jonoska (University of South Florida, USA)
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Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
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Irina Kostitsyna (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands), co-chair
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Robert Legenstein (TU Graz, Austria)
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Makoto Naruse (University of Tokyo, Japan)
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Pekka Orponen (Aalto University, Finland), co-chair
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Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA)
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Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn, Germany)
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Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
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Gunnar Tufte (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
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